A recent City Council vote to permit rehabilitation of the former Mirons warehouse has cleared the way for developer Frank Cretella to seek Planning Board approvals.
The building was removed from the North Avenue redevelopment plan in the council vote and is now up for an Aug. 5 Planning Board hearing for preliminary and final site plan approvals for 12 apartments and 2,482 square feet of retail space in the long-vacant building.
The hearing is 8 p.m. Aug. 5 in City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Ave.
The developer is seeking a variance from off-street parking regulations. Twenty-three are required for the development and the developer is proposing no parking spaces.
Once nicknamed the "luxury condos" project for a previous redevelopment project, it is now called Gavett Place Properties LLC. The site is at the northwest corner of Gavett Place and East Second Street near the main train station.
Cretella has several other projects in the works. Click here for a Plaintalker summary from March 2009. The 100-unit West Second Street Commons proposal did not move forward, but is still under discussion as city officials mull the need for greater residential density downtown.
The Front Street Offices LLC project is also in abeyance. That project envisioned building on the existing Appliance-Arama warehouse and incorporating two city-owned lots on the West Front Street block anchored by McDonald's restaurant.
--Bernice Paglia
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